On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:05:20 +0200, Ron K. Jeffries <rjeffries at gmail.com>
wrote:
> It's wonderful the focus of the community is now
> all about $399 vs $400 rather than availability
> of Freerunner in certain colors.
That's the marvel of communities. All it takes is a good topic-starter. :-)
> and YES I agree, the remaining V5 vs V6 issues seem small
> (but we did get extra info and clarification, thanks Tony).
BTW, there is a way to work around the v5 issue in software. Because the
LED in an unmodified v5 shines 6 or so times as bright as it should (and
eats 6 times more power), the solution is to correct the brightness with
PWM to reduce it 6 times. This would bring the brightness and power
consumption to normal. However, I suspect that for many community members
who were so eager to prefer v6 over v5, simply knowing that there is a
workaround, and thus no known unavoidable hardware bugs exist in v5, would
be enough, and actually implementing the workaround would not be that
important. :-)
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